Hi Donna,
See you have answered a question here that I asked you on Homeschl.
DR>Also, the teachers are trained to teach these programs while they are 
suppos
  >to be implementing them in their classrooms - rather than before 
implementin
  >them. I think that's backwards, especially if there are no good manuals 
or
  >teaching it.
DR>I was involved in this situation when whole language started coming in, in 
t
  >late 80s. I was told to use whole language, but not given any manuals or
  >training in it beforehand. It was all OJT. I felt inadequate...fortunately 
I
  >usually went back to my original way of doing things, until I understood 
wha
  >was doing. As soon as I understood what I was doing, I still didn't use 
it. 
  >am NOT a proponent of whole language.) :)
That was the whole problem with whole language - and still is for some
teachers. They were told to go teach a program that they knew next to
nothing about and actually in most cases misunderstood. Point in
question is that whole language educators do not teach phonics. Not so.
So tell me Donna, since I asked you before what you think of whole
language, what is it about whole language that you don't like?
Ignore this question if you have already answered it in Homeschl -
unless people here want to hear what you have to say. 
Ruth
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